Internal Program Version: TimeDate  2.33.5.38.2

Date::Parse provides two routines for parsing date strings into time values.

str2time(DATE [, ZONE])

   str2time parses DATE and returns a unix time value, or undef upon failure.
    ZONE, if given, specifies the timezone to assume when parsing if the date
    string does not specify a timezome.

strptime(DATE [, ZONE])

   strptime takes the same arguments as str2time but returns an array of values
    Elements are only defined if they could be extracted from the date string. 
    The 'zone' element is the timezone offset in seconds from GMT. An empty 
    array is returned upon failure.

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